Zentimo

Manage Your External Storage Devices

Have you ever lost data because your external drive didn't disconnect properly? Ever found yourself staring at a flash drive that won't stop blinking, frozen because you aren't sure whether it's safe to remove it? Thanks to Zentimo, you'll be able to control your external drives better than ever before!

Zentimo is a powerful external drive manager that lets you get a better handle on your flash drives, portable drives, card readers and other external devices. You can use Zentimo to properly stop any external device, display locked up processes, or even restart a frozen drive!

With Zentimo, you can manage drive letters to ensure a consistent experience every time! Hide drive letters for unused card reader slots, or guarantee that the same drive letter is mapped to a specific device every time!

Data security becomes an easy, automated thing with Zentimo! Powerful autorun scripts give you the power to check for viruses as soon as a device is plugged in, or launch file manager! Got some portable apps on your drive? Configure Zentimo to let you launch any app off of your portable drive with a single click!

DunkingIs USB Safely Remove still being developed? If not, what happens to the Zentimo lifetime users when your next better project gets released and Zentimo goes the way of Safely Remove? Presumable the lifetime license won't count for much and they may as well have just got a limited time one?

Igor TkachenkoDunking,
Yes, USB Safely Remove is still developed (for more than 10 years) and will be developed further. We simultaneously make releases for both of the programs, you can find history of releases in our blog: http://blog.crystalrich.com/

Igor TkachenkoKelly Hamblin,
You are correct. After a year of free upgrades you can use the latest version you receive during your upgrade period or you can purchase renewal at discounted price: http://zentimo.com/extendLicense.htm

David H (Seattle)@MBe - a clear and unqualified answer was already given above, to Kelly. You'll get updates all the way to v42.0 if that's the last one that came out before one year from your purchase, and you'd be able to use that version forever. Today it's at v2.0.6, if it only gets to v2.3.1 by 6/13/19, then you'll only get up to v2.3.1. This is a common form of license, at least here on BDJ, "one year free" describes it perfectly.

I've used v1 Zentimo on an older machine and love its simplicity and effectiveness, will buy this v2 for a new desktop I'm building.

Igor TkachenkoMBe,
No, the updates are tied to the upgrade period rather than to the version number. Sometimes in case we have missed crucial bugs in a version we fix them and allow all users who updated to the buggy version to update again even if their upgrade period is over.

Dunking@Igor Tkachenko: Thanks for that info, It is good to see a company looking after its long-term users.

Just out of interest, suppose one purchased a 1-year license today and, on reading your response to me, decided a lifetime one would have been more appropriate. Is there a possibility of upgrading for the difference in price or would it mean a new purchase?

John GeeAs a happy Zentimo user for many years, I recently had a HDD crash my PC. I had to get a new PC.
I have operated now for 4 weeks without Z and I must say that the USB management in Win10 is fantastic.. YMMV.

Igor TkachenkoJohn Gee,
As far as I know Win 10 doesn't add much in terms of USB management comparing to Win 7. For example there's no way to see what apps are locking USB device, see stopped but not removed devices, reactivate device back etc. Or am I overlooked something?